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feize the end of it with your pliers, and commence 

 winding it flowly, and picking out the fibres with a 

 needle if you fee them entangled. When all this has 

 been done, force back the reverfe way the ends of the 

 fibres you have wound round the hook, and which 

 point naturally towards the barb. This will give you 

 an opportunity to form the body, unincumbered by the 

 feather. The waxed filk you left you muft now con- 

 tinue winding down as neatly as poffible to the length 

 neceflary for the body of the fly. If fur be ufed, twift 

 a little of it (always in proportion to the body you wifh 

 to imitate) on the filk, the latter being of the fame 

 colour as the body, and continue winding it up to the 

 hackle, then fatten off as before, with two loops, for 

 fecurity. If a palmer be the order of the day, the body 

 muft be made firft, over which you can either wind 

 the hackle, commencing as above at the head down to 

 the bend of the hook, and then fatten off with the filk 

 you leave on purpofe, or you can tie in the hackle at 

 the bend, work upwards, and then faften off, and make 

 the head. I ufually adopt the firft plan. If gold or 

 filver twift be needed, nothing can be eafier than to 

 wind, not too clofe, round the body as much as you 

 want ; if for a buzz, after the hackle is wound on, and 

 if for a palmer, before. With no lefs difficulty can 

 you faften with the filk, when you firft wind it on the 

 hook, two or three fibres of a hackle, as you may re- 

 quire, or of anything you fancy better, to imitate a tail. 

 In tying a winged fly, I am aware I deviate from 

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